Her story is amazing. Her recovery is profound. Advance secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis is almost a death sentence.

Dr. Amy Yasko's - Using Nutrigenomics To Optimize Health and particularly her PDF article "DETECTING NEURO-PROVOKING FOODS" at her website helped me understand why the Wahls protocol is doubly important as a quick contrast of the article "DETECTING NEURO-PROVOKING FOODS", Foods That Damage the Nerves with the Wahls/ Paleo Diet protocol and I can't find one Foods That Damage the Nerves that is included in the Wahls Paleo Protocol;

DETECTING NEURO-PROVOKING FOODS
Mood, energy levels, mental stability, resilience, speech, motor-skills, sleep, and hormonal function are just a few of the many functional areas closely tied to neurotransmitter balance.
Neurotransmitters are brain chemicals that communicate information throughout the brain and body. They also signal the two halves of our autonomic nervous systemthe sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, each of which helps perform a wide range of bodily functions.

There are two kinds of neurotransmitters, which act in a dynamic balance something like a seesaw.
Excitatory neurotransmitters stimulate.
Inhibitory neurotransmitters calm the brain, nerves, and mood
Imbalances occur when one side or the other becomes overactive. The goal is to keep them in balance.
For children with autism the seesaw were concerned about is the one between glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter, and GABA, a calming neurotransmitter essential for speech.
Too much glutamate causes excitation leading to stimulatory behavior, called stims, and excess nerve firing and nerve damage. Not enough GABA and calming neurotransmission leads to lack of speech.
When the glutamate/GABA seesaws tips too far over to glutamate, reducing glutamate intake helps to restore balance and correct the health symptoms. While we all need low levels of glutamate, avoiding excessive intake will help stop the inflammatory process that glutamate and
other excitotoxins trigger.
Toxic Food Ingredients
To keep glutamate levels balanced, its best to avoid all foods (and nutritional supplements) that contain (or prompt the body to create) glutamate, glutamic acid, aspartate, and/or aspartic acid and cysteine. Once you begin to read labels, youll be surprised how widespread these ingredients are-- even in foods your children currently eat!
Heres what to look for.

Food Products That Commonly Contain Excitoxins and Other Harmful Ingredients
Clearly, you cant always avoid everything on these lists. But you can regard these foods and
ingredients with suspicion, as they have been known to cause problems. Even if you do not
eliminate them entirely, you can pay special attention after your child has eaten a potentially
troublesome food and look for and note an immediate negative reaction (within the next twentyfour
hours.) On the other hand, there can also be a long term cumulative effect, so dont think
that in the absence of an immediate problem, your child can tolerate that food.
It may not always be possible to avoid every single item on these lists, but you can and should
monitor your childs intake of foods that damage the nerves.

The bottom line is that once glutamate reaches a certain level, neurological damage has
already occurred. To avoid getting to that point, the goal is to limit the amount of
glutamate that comes into the body every day. As you learn the sources of glutamate and
aspartate, you can make informed choices about limiting intake to keep excitotoxins to a
minimum; you will never avoid them completely.
Transitioning to proper nutrition and getting glutamate under control are foundational to
this Yasko Protocol, even though its often a challenge. Please seek out the techniques
and approaches that work for your child and family, and remember that this is a
marathon, not a sprint.

I used to eat very similarly to Dr wahls diet until testing showed I had the CBS mutation that leads to high ammonia and sulfur groups. (Also had high phosphorus and urea, which is related but can't remember how.) Apparently methylation is unlikely to be successful until sulfur levels come down (Yasko). This might be one reason I've done badly with methylation attempts so am now eating low sulfur foods before my next attempt.

Quite a few of us here have the CBS variation so masses of high sulfur foods are probably not healthy for everyone.
High folate foods also cause problems for a lot of us trying methylation protocols so that's another thing to beware of when considering boatloads of veggies.